What happened in 330 BC?
Battle of the Persian Gate on the Mountain, Hyperesian War and Achaemenid Empire dissolved — among 19 events recorded in 330 BC.
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Wars & Conflicts 3
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Battle of the Persian Gate on the Mountain
Battle between Alexander the Great and Ariobarzanes near Persepolis in a small mountainpass known as the Persian gate along the Royal road
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Hyperesian War
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Herat Citadel
Historic citadel in Herat, Afghanistan
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People 9
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Darius III died
Last king of the Achaemenid Empire (r. 336–330 BC)
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Kidinnu died
Babylonian astronomer, possible creator of Babylonian System B ephemerides
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Ephorus died
Greek historian (c. 400 – 330 BC)
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Archestratus of Gela died
Ancient Greek poet (4th century BCE)
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Eubulus died
4th-century BC Athenian politician and orator
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Amyntas died
Ancient Macedonian general
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Demetrius died
Somatophylakes
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Zenodotus born
Born in Ephesus. 3rd century BC Greek grammarian, literary critic and scholar; first librarian of the Library of Alexandria (c. 280 BCE); pioneer of textual criticism and editorial philology; the Zenodo research repository is named after him.
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Metrodorus of Lampsacus born
Born in Lampsacus. 3rd-century BC Greek Epicurean philosopher.
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Empires & Countries 1
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Achaemenid Empire dissolved
Achaemenid Empire ceased to exist, having been centered at Babylon.
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